"I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret."
"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."
"We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated."
"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"
"...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath."
"Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element."